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The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is back! After a series of unfortunate events with the Note 7, Samsung has gone all guns blazing with their most expensive phone in the market yet. Is the Galaxy Note 8 worth the Rm3,999 price tag? How much different is this than the already amazing Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus? Jeff Sandhu whips the stylus out for a review.

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As we live in the 21st century, data has become crucial to almost every industry today. Some have even turned data into an entire business, think Google and Facebook. So data is obviously king but collection data has changed tremendously over the past few years and will keep changing in the future. Some are still struggling with tedious manual labour on data collection and some have resorted to AI. One of the is Dattel and here with me today is Hamdi Mokhtar, Director of Information Strategy for Dattel to talk about data collection of the past, the present and why it’s not working entirely and the future.

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The folks from Digital News Asia.com takes a look at some of the movers and shakers in the local tech industry.

0.58 - For The Sake Of Speed, Innovation, This Founder Cut His Entire Management Team

16.12 - Alibaba Cloud Trains Its Sights On Southeast Asia

23.05 - The Evolution Every Entrepreneur Must Undergo

28.16 - Go-Jek Extends Go-Pay To Other Online, Offline Businesses

32.34 - Five Malaysian Startups Seek To Enter Indonesian Market Via ExpandIn Programme

36.25 - Khazanah Boost For Entrepreneurial Talent In Malaysia

39.17 - Play To WIN, In Digital Era, Urge DNA, ITrain

43.30 - ‘Challenger Brand’ Oracle's Digital Hubs In Asia Mark Its Transition From Product To Services Company

4.33 - Week In Review: The Big Fish Are Looking To Adopt Small Fish Culture

46.47 - Hello Gold

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It’s all change here on Fun Friday. We’ve got something brand new for you today. I know you’re expecting Matt Armitage to come on air to brighten up your day, just as he has every Friday for the past six years. Finally, It’s time for Matt and Tech Talk to say goodbye. Don’t worry, he isn’t going anywhere – god knows we’ve tried everything we can to get him off air. Today we’re rebranding. Just like a mangy old rat wearing a Savile Row suit, we’re back with… Mattsplaining! And our first topic will be Utopia!

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On this episode, the geeks talk about Elon Musk's plan to colonized Mars, Mark Zuckerberg regret dismissing concerns about the Facebook’s role in influencing the US presidential race, James Dyson's electric car to be launched in 2020, Pirate Bay and Showtime turned to forcing unknowing visitors to mine cryptocurrency, Dubai's first drone taxi, and iPhone X's facial recognition system.

0:23 - Before We Can Send Humans To Mars, We Need To Address This Major Health Risk

7:27 - Mark Zuckerberg: I Regret Ridiculing Fears Over Facebook's Effect On Election

10:57 - James Dyson To Invest £2.5bn On 'Radically Different' Electric Car

15:38 - Ads Don't Work So Websites Are Using Your Electricity To Pay The Bills

18:57 - Dubai Starts Tests In Bid To Become First City With Flying Taxis

21:15 - Apple: Don't Use Face ID On An Iphone X If You're Under 13 Or Have A Twin

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What if you were to add in a better camera and a faster processor on the Nokia 3? How about wrapping all those hardware is an all metal body? You get the Nokia 5. This might just be the best looking low-tier smartphone in the market today, but is it just all show and no talk?

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With premium smartphones today costing RM4k and above, it has become slightly out of reach for many. Low-tier smartphones however previously felt cheap and a total waste of money, until now. The Nokia 3 is the cheapest of the new HMD Global range of smartphones, costing only RM599. Is this the perfect low-tier smartphone that's worth the purchase?

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As we’re just weeks away from Ruby Conference My 2017, Jeff Sandhu speaks to Aaron Patterson, a keynote speaker and Github employee, and a core team member of Ruby on Rails about what are some the interest that sparked his journey in Ruby and where does it belong in a future filled with so many different programming languages.

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In the world of Marvel and DC, you can always count on superheroes to save the day, especially in situations like trains going off their tracks, bank heists, an aeroplane about to crash, and alien invasions. They will all respond in one call. But in this age of tech and an ordinary life, where can you find a hero that helps with moving, electrical and wiring, air-conditioner installation or house cleaning? Karl Loo, the captain of this league of heroes at ServisHero together with Nehemiah Moses, the engineering manager talks about what is the operation like at headquarters, the challenges they face and their journey ahead as a digital startup with the help of AWS.

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A few months ago, Travis: The Translator project was posted on Kickstarter with a target of USD 80,000k. Little did they know, it became a huge hit with the project breaking past USD 700,000k! How was this done? We speak to Growth Hacker, Pascal van Steen on some of the tips that you could use for a successful Kickstart campaign.

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